Walking the Dog
"While we wait you can decide if you want to leash me here or outside."
"Here," I said.
She tossed the leash onto the table. "You watched her take other lovers, she'll have to watch you. Jealousy is a strange creature, Jasper. We can go now."
Jasper's in love with Tracie and Tracie's in love with Jasper but the chasm of their ages separates them and Jasper must adjust in some way to being without her. Of course life is never so simple in high school.
This is the story of people living in a special place and while there is sex in this novelette, the story doesn't drip with sex. Written in 2006, about 31,000 words in length in 19 chapters.
Links
Walking the Dog is available as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat document, as a Kindle mobi file, or as online web pages.
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Walking the Dog can be read online in two-chapter segments. Eachtwo-chapter web page is around 3,000 words. Links to the next chaptersr along with links to all the chapters and this page are at the bottom of each web page.
Writing the Story
The story started as an idea of two people living in a town and falling in love but both had obligations as the town sluts. The idea was shelved and almost forgotten completely until this story began to emerge which has a different dynamic entirely.
Walking the Dog was written quickly and on revising additional chapters were added (such as chapter 15) to help make the conclusion more sensible. I wrote this and several other stories at the same time using the basic format of 1500 word chapters that were, mostly, a single scene or event. This is a different approach to how I wrote stories such as Switch.
Sources
There is no single source but the story couldn't help but be influenced by a fascinating woman I met online who is the living embodiment of many of my female characters — sexually adventurous, submissive in some ways, the opposite in others, very much in love with the man she's married to, but also having a history that includes prostitution (under a previous owner). One of the characteristics of this woman is the ease in which she enters polyamorous relationships.
